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'''Project Description''' | '''Project Description''' | ||
On the near east side of Conroe, Texas, is a small, African American cemetery that has been lost to human memory, but it has not been forgotten by nature. The Conroe Community Cemetery | On the near east side of Conroe, Texas, is a small, African American cemetery that has been lost to human memory, but it has not been forgotten by nature.<br> | ||
The Conroe Community Cemetery never had a name. It was simply known as the Conroe Cemetery, No-Name Cemetery, or the Community Cemetery among the older<br> | |||
African Americans in the community. Burials there date back to the 1800s and include not only former slaves, but some of the most influential African Americans | |||
<br>in local and Texas history. | |||
*'''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies/submission/8/MMFP-2P3 Conroe Community Cemetery - Community Trees]'''<br> | *'''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/genealogies/submission/8/MMFP-2P3 Conroe Community Cemetery - Community Trees]'''<br> | ||
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